Reich said in his blog that he’d left a message on O’Reilly’s office line and has yet to get a response.

“Ordinarily I don’t bother repeating anything Bill O’Reilly says,” Reich wrote. “But this particular whopper is significant because it represents what O’Reilly and Fox News, among others, are doing to the national dialogue. They’re burying it in doo-doo.” Reich also tweeted: